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# Local college students make the grade
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-college-students-make-the-grade/
- Published: 2004-06-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:37:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pacific Palisades, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Three of Santa Monica’s children earned themselves and the city recognition away from home this past spring semester.

Stephen K. Bayes, Gene T. Kafka and Adam P. Saltsman were named on Colby College’s spring Dean’s List. In order to make the list, the Waterville, Maine-based college requires a grade point average of 3.2 for continuing students and 3.0 for first -year students.

Bayes graduated from the city’s Crossroads School and is majoring in biology and minoring in psychology while at Colby. During Saltsman’s time at the college, he chose to major in anthropology, after he graduated from Palisades High School. Kafka, a graduate of Santa Monica High School, is double-majoring in physics and English.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 26, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062604.pdf?ref=smdp.com)